We must first of all know that the entire Bible is corrupted and
unreliable and is mostly filled with man-made laws and corruption! "`How can you say, "We [the Jews] are wise, for we have the law
of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?' (From the NIV Bible, Jeremiah 8:8)"

The Revised Standard Version makes it even
clearer: "How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of
the LORD is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it
into a lie. (From the RSV Bible, Jeremiah
8:8)"

In either translation, we clearly see that
the Jews had so much corrupted the Bible with their man-made cultural laws, that they had
turned the Bible into a lie!

See Also Deuteronomy
31:25-29 where Moses peace be upon him predicted the
corruption/tampering of the Law (Bible) after his death.

The Book of Moses predicted that the Law (Bible)
will get corrupted. The Book of Jeremiah which came approximately 826 years after
did indeed confirm this corruption.

What is the punishment for rape in
Christianity and in Islam?

In Christianity:

Christians follow the laws of the Bible only. All of their religious sources,
laws and verdicts come straight from the Bible (if we were to have
true Christian countries where Church would rule over the State), except for Roman
Catholics where they have other Volumes written by Church Fathers and Popes. But
most Christians in the world have no religious resources other than the Bible.

Therefore, let us look at what the Bible says regarding this issue:

Rape is a big crime that could actually take the woman's or the victim's life
away. Let us examine how Christianity deals with the rapist: "If
a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are
discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry
the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he
lives. (From the NIV
Bible, Deuteronomy 22:28)"Although
this Verse from the Bible only talks about virgins, but its the only verse in the entire
Bible that talks about raping single women. Not to be biased or anything, but the
Bible seems to have quite weird things in it that are quite irrational and quite
ridiculous. Deuteronomy 22:28 forces the raped woman to marry her rapist. My
question to the writers of the Bible is why in the world would any raped female victim
want to be in the same town, not the same bedroom !! with her rapist?.

Also, the Bible seems to promote raping of single women: "But
if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her,
only the man who has done this shall die. (From the NIV
Bible, Deuteronomy 22:25)" This is quite an
interesting verse. We see in Deuteronomy 22:28 that if a man rapes a single woman
then she will be forced to be his wife, while if a man rapes a married woman or a woman
who is spoken for, in Deuteronomy 22:25, then he shall be put to death. There
is absolutely no punishment for the rapist of a single woman in the Bible.
For those Christians who think that they don't have to follow the Old Testament, well my
answer to them is this: The Old Testament prohibits for the brother to marry his
sister, or for the son to marry his mother. The New Testament doesn't even talk
about it. Does that mean that a Christian brother can marry his sister? or a
Christian son can marry his mother? Jesus himself anyway ordered
his followers to follow the Old Testament, so their argument is totally invalid.

Question to Jews and Christians:
How is the Bible supposed to prevent some loser from stalking the most beautiful
single woman in town, rape her, and then sue her in court to become his wife so he can
continue raping her for the rest of her life?!

In Islam, we follow the laws of the Noble Quran, and the Sayings of Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him. If a situation or case is not addressed in neither the Noble
Quran, or the Sayings of our beloved Prophet, then we follow the local verdicts of our
Religious Authorities, where they would decide based upon the cultural and social
situation and causes.

Allah Almighty said in the Noble Quran:

"O ye who believe! Obey God, and obey the
Apostle, and those charged with authority among you. If ye differ
in anything among yourselves, refer it to God and His Apostle, if ye do believe
in God and the Last Day: That is best, and most suitable for final
determination. (The Noble Quran, 4:59)"

"God did confer a great favour on the believers when He
sent among them an apostle from among themselves, rehearsing unto them the Signs
of God, sanctifying them, and instructing them in Scripture and
Wisdom, while, before that, they had been in manifest error. (The Noble Quran, 3:164)"

"Obey God, and obey the Apostle, and
beware (of evil): if ye do turn back, know ye that it is Our Apostle's duty to
proclaim (the message) in the clearest manner. (The Noble Quran, 5:92)"

"(We sent) clear proofs and the scriptures. Now, We
have sent you this reminder (Qur’an) so that you may demonstrate the
revelations to them. Perhaps they may reflect and ponder! (The Noble Quran, 16:44)"

"When there comes to them some matter touching (Public)
safety or fear, they divulge it. If they had only referred it to the
Apostle, or to those charged with authority among them, the proper
investigators would have Tested it from them (direct). Were it not for the Grace
and Mercy of God unto you, all but a few of you would have fallen into the
clutches of Satan. (The Noble Quran, 4:83)"

"Those who follow the apostle, the
unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in their own (scriptures),- in the
law and the Gospel;- for he commands them what is just and forbids them what is
evil; he allows them as lawful what is good (and pure) and prohibits them from
what is bad (and impure); He releases them from their heavy burdens and from the
yokes that are upon them. So it is those who believe in him, honour him, help
him, and follow the light which is sent down with him,- it is they who will
prosper. (The Noble Quran, 7:157)"

"Say: "Obey God, and obey the Apostle: but if ye turn away, he
is only responsible for the duty placed on him and ye for that placed on you. If
ye obey him, ye shall be on right guidance. The Apostle's duty is only to preach
the clear (Message).

"Ye have indeed in the Apostle of God a beautiful pattern (of
conduct) for any one whose hope is in God and the Final Day, and who engages
much in the Praise of God.

(The Noble Quran,
33:21)"

"It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by God and His Apostle to have any option about their
decision: if any one disobeys God and His Apostle, he is indeed on
a clearly wrong Path.

(The Noble Quran,
33:36)"

"The Day that their faces will be turned upside down in the Fire, they will
say: "Woe to us! Would that we had obeyed God and obeyed the Apostle!"

(The Noble Quran, 33:66)"

"It is He Who has sent amongst the Unlettered an apostle from among
themselves, to rehearse to them His Signs, to sanctify them, and to
instruct them in Scripture and Wisdom,- although they had been, before,
in manifest error;-

(The Noble Quran, 62:2)"

"So obey God, and obey His Apostle: but if ye turn back, the
duty of Our Apostle is but to proclaim (the Message) clearly and openly.

(The Noble Quran, 64:12)"

Since the punishment for rape doesn't exist in the Noble Quran, but exists in the
Sayings of our beloved Prophet peace be upon him, then the verdict or law for punishing
the rapist according to Noble Verses 4:59 and 4:83 above must come from our beloved
Prophet's Sayings.

Let us look at what Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said regarding this issue:

The following information was sent to me. Let us look at how Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him dealt with the rapists:

Narrated Wa'il ibn Hujr:

"When a woman went out in the time of the Prophet
(peace_be_upon_him) for prayer, a man attacked her and overpowered (raped) her. She
shouted and he went off, and when a man came by, she said: That (man) did such and such to
me. And when a company of the Emigrants came by, she said: That man did such and such to
me. They went and seized the man whom they thought had had intercourse with her and
brought him to her.

She said: Yes, this is he. Then they brought him to the Apostle
of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). When he (the Prophet) was about to pass sentence, the
man who (actually) had assaulted her stood up and said: Apostle of Allah, I am the man who
did it to her.

He (the Prophet) said to the woman: Go away, for Allah has
forgiven you. And about the man who had intercourse with her, he said: Stone
him to death.

He also said: He has repented to such an extent that if the
people of Medina had repented similarly, it would have been accepted from them. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 38, Number 4366)"

Saudi Arabia today applies the death penalty for the punishment of rape and other cases as
well. The following quote was taken from an article from CNN.COM regarding the
punishment of a rapist. He was punished to death:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia on Friday beheaded a Saudi man for
raping boys and an Indian for drug trafficking, the Interior Ministry said.

In the capital Riyadh, Saudi citizen Dowaihi bin Mohammed al-Qahtani was executed after he was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping and
raping boys, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press
Agency.

Seyed bin Mahboub Amir, from India, was executed in Riyadh for smuggling an unspecified
quantity of heroin into the kingdom, according to the statement.

Friday's executions bring to at least 74 the number of people beheaded this year in the
kingdom, where executions are carried out in public with a sword. Last year, 125 people
were beheaded.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam that
demands the death penalty for murder, rape, drug trafficking and armed robbery."

Very Important Note: In
Islam, determining the case as a rape case is important and would mean the difference
between life and death to the man. There is a difference between a rapist who is
caught raping innocent children as shown in the article above, or someone who forcibly
raped a woman beyond her will after stalking her, and someone went with his girlfriend on
his boat (by her own will) to the middle of the sea, and spent the night there together,
and she came back claiming that he raped her.

If a woman seems that she invited a man to have sex with her, or was willing to have
sex with him and both went away and came back later, and then she claims that he raped
her, and he denies that, then her case would be considered invalid, and both of them would
be determined to have had illegal sex, and therefore, both
of them would get punished for it. The point is that, women don't always
determine the rape case. And the men's lives are not under the women's mercy.
The woman has to be stalked and raped in order for her case to be considered a rape case.